Re: [Ianaplan] A draft for your review - more (policy coord vs IANA operator coord)

[John Curran <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 2, 2014, at 1:34 AM, John Curran <[e-mail]> wrote:
> ...
> I do think it is worth documenting the need for good coordination 
> between the IETF and delegated registries, predominantly because 
> the RFP does specifically ask about independencies and good policy 
> coordination keeps the IANA operator(s) an administrative function
> rather than becoming an arbitration role.

I'll also note that this type of coordination among policy authorities
for those registries that have less than algorithmic boundaries (e.g. 
the need for technical/specialized IPv4 reservations from the nearly 
fully allocated IPv4 unicast space, the insertion of a technical entries
into the DNS root zone, etc.) is also quite distinct from the excellent 
IANA operational coordination in registry space publication, e.g. building 
a single in-addr.arpa zone with data from various sources, getting the 
.arpa entry into DNS root alongside other entries, etc.  

These IANA operational coordination tasks work well with a single IANA 
functions operator, and we should note that care is necessary to provide 
the same coordination if multiple IANA operators should ever be the norm.

/John

Disclaimer: my views alone.